Six paratroopers who served in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday have accused the
Saville report of making a scapegoat of their commanding officer while
deliberately ignoring the role played by the Provisional IRA.

The soldiers, none of whom fired shots at the victims on that day, said that
Lord Saville of Newdigate had singled-out Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Wilford
only because he wanted to be able to lay the blame on a senior officer.

In a written statement to BBC Northern Ireland’s Spotlight
programme, they also questioned Lord Saville’s findings that Martin
McGuinness, then adjutant of the IRA’s Derry Brigade, had been in